Future Stars: Rationale (Best Laid Plans/Warner Brothers)

As seen at Eurosonic Festival – click here to find out more. Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Back in 2010, I first wrote about a British-Zimbabwean indie-pop artist signed to Island called Tinashé Fazakerley, known simply as Tinashé. I saw him live, enjoyed his album (you can see a… Continue reading Future Stars: Rationale (Best Laid Plans/Warner Brothers)

Song of the Week: Venior – Sugar Rush

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. I’m heading to Sweden’s Where’s The Music festival next month, and it’s a great opportunity to discover some new Scandi talent that hasn’t reached our international ears quite yet. One artist who’s on my “must see” list is Venior, aka 21-year-old Emelie Sederholm. She’s… Continue reading Song of the Week: Venior – Sugar Rush

Future Hits: Ladies, let your hurr down

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. My weekly playlist features five tracks I predict will be future hit singles in the UK. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux-UeEN3qwoYtWOAiSA3-o53] Tracklisting: Ellie Goulding – Army Jason Derulo – Get Ugly DJ Mustard ft. Travi$ Scott – Whole Lotta Lovin’ twenty one pilots – Stressed Out Birdy –… Continue reading Future Hits: Ladies, let your hurr down

Future Stars: X Ambassadors (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. You may not know the name X Ambassadors, but you probably do know one of their songs. They collaborated with Jamie n Commons and Jay-Z on the 2014 track Jungle, which appeared everywhere from a Beats advert and the Brazil World Cup TV coverage… Continue reading Future Stars: X Ambassadors (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope)

Future Stars: Alan Walker (Sony Sweden)

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. Because the Scandinavians have adopted Spotify en masse as their method of music consumption, they have a larger influence on the streaming service’s global charts than you would expect for countries with small populations. This is great news, as they also produce much of… Continue reading Future Stars: Alan Walker (Sony Sweden)

Popping the Question: What is the future of the TV talent show?

This week sees the first episodes of both the last BBC series of The Voice and the last ever series of American Idol. The future of Britain’s top singing show, The X Factor, also looks uncertain. 2016 will give us one final year of the big music contests in the familiar scheduling pattern, but from… Continue reading Popping the Question: What is the future of the TV talent show?

Future Hits: And I remember thinking…

Taken from this week’s Future Pop mailer. Click here to subscribe. My weekly playlist features five tracks I predict will be future hit singles in the UK. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw0LjVTuPux_juRnNOkFuzslSW31_ZiXb] Tracklisting: Taylor Swift – Out of the Woods Zara Larsson – Lush Life Shawn Mendes – Stitches Selena Gomez – Hands to Myself X Ambassadors – Renegades… Continue reading Future Hits: And I remember thinking…